Contemporary Management of Innovation

JON SUNDBO is Professor in Business Administration, specializing in innovation and technology management at the Department of Social sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. As Director of the Centre for Service Studies, he co-ordinates the department's research in innovation and change processes in service and manufacturing. He has published articles in several journals on innovation, entrepreneurship, service and management and has published several books, among these The Theory of Innovation and The Strategic Management of Innovation. ANDREA GALLINA, PhD in Economics, is

Beginning with theoretical analyses of the innovation management field, the book turns to the institutional and geographic factors underlying innovation, and the potential posed by a 'soft' or organizational view of innovation management, before concluding with a section on the management of knowledge, information and appropriability.Both society and markets have changed, and the art of innovation has changed with them, becoming increasingly complex. The book comprises the chapters of twenty-two European innovation researchers. The authors challenge existing innovation theory and management dogma and present new theoretical perspectives. Beginning with theoretical analyses of the innovation management field, the book turns to the institutional and geographic factors underlying innovation, and the potential posed by a 'soft' or organizational view of innovation management, before concluding with a section on the management of knowledge, information and appropriability.